It isn't a matter of hardship. It is a matter of justice. When somebody was brought here as a child, that child had no say in it. And if the person has no family here and doesn't know family where he came from--in some cases they don't even know exactly where they came from--where do you send them? I am a senior citizen and just this past year I heard for the first time where my family had been living when they first brought me as a 2-yr-old to this state.
There will be some exceptions, and I think the Congress should set aside the applicable law in certain exceptional cases that will be decided on a case by case basis. There won't be a lot of these, but they do exist.
This has been said many times here but I guess it needs repeating.
What about parents that end up in prison? That breaks up the family through no fault of the child.
The law doesn't break up any families.....the children have the option to leave with the parents who brought them here.
That is what you want...... but that is not what they are doing. They leave their kids for you and me to feed and shelter them with our taxes.
"They leave their kids for you and me to feed and shelter them with our taxes."
"This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past."
Agathon,
from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
We play the hand that's been dealt us.
1. On whose doorstep do you lay the blame for the reality we face?
2. Here's one more part of that reality:
"I've got a question, Chief," I said. "Something only you will know."
"Like what?"
"Average height and weight for a male U.S. Army soldier."
The guy said nothing, but I felt his annoyance fade away. The Quartermaster Corps buys millions of uniforms a year, and twice as many boots, all on a budget, so you can bet it knows the tale of the tape to the nearest half-inch and the nearest half-ounce. It can't afford not to, literally. And it loves to show off its specialized knowledge.
"No problem," the guy said. "Male adult population aged twenty to fifty as a whole in America goes five-nine and a half, and one seventy-eight.
We're overrepresented with Hispanics by comparison with the nation as a whole, which brings our median height down one whole inch to five-eight and a half. We train pretty hard, which brings our median weight up three pounds to one eighty-one, muscle being generally heavier than fat."
From the novel "The Enemy" by Lee Child
That's the United States Army, our pride and joy...and our protection.
Get the point?